What would happen if six people decided to practice doing less of life alone?
That’s the experiment.
The Six is a free six-week practice group.
You start with six people. You meet once a week for 90 minutes for six weeks. In person is preferred when possible.
During those meetings, you practice a handful of ordinary social capabilities:
Noticing when you’re assuming you have to handle something yourself
Checking assumptions instead of treating them as facts
Asking for what you need in reasonable, everyday ways
Receiving another person’s help or perspective
Listening and responding without automatically trying to fix someone
Bringing other minds into decisions, problems and uncertainty
Slowing things down when misunderstanding or friction happens
Then you try some of those practices in your actual life between meetings.
This isn’t a class where one expert teaches everyone else.
Each Six is peer-led. One person serves as the host, helping with scheduling and protecting the simple process, but they aren’t the therapist, teacher or authority.
And The Six is deliberately not therapy.
You don’t have to reveal your deepest experiences, explain your childhood or process trauma. Nobody is required to disclose anything. You can always pass.
The work is simpler and more immediate:
What are you carrying right now?
What are you predicting about other people?
What happens if you check?
What happens if you ask?
What happens when you let someone else contribute?
What you’re committing to
For six weeks, you make a good-faith effort to attend one 90-minute meeting each week, participate in the practices, try some of them in ordinary life, respect the group agreements and contribute to other members as well as receive from them.
At the end of six weeks, the experiment is over.
Your group can continue, change form or disperse. There is no requirement to become a permanent group.
Why we’re doing this
We don’t yet know whether The Six works.
That’s the point of the experiment.
We’ve seen strong interest in the idea of not carrying life alone, and people are now beginning to form Sixes. But interest isn’t enough.
The real question is what happens when people actually meet, week after week.
Do they keep showing up?
Do the practices become useful?
Do they use them outside the group?
Does anything in ordinary life become easier?
That is what the first Sixes will help us learn.
Want to try it?
If you’re ready to form a group, go to:
START HERE: Everything you need to get your Six started this week.
If you’re interested but have questions, come to the next Find Your Six Fireside Chat.
You don’t need to have all six people figured out before you begin.
You just need to be willing to join the experiment.